Intelligence Analyst

**Intelligence Analyst**

**Role type**: Permanent full-time

**Location**: Wellington

**Salary band & range**: E - $85,302 and $99,628 depending on skills and experience.

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**Kōrero mō te Tūranga - About the Role**:
Intelligence Analysts deliver timely, insightful, relevant intelligence products for decision maker to support understanding the risks and opportunities for New Zealand's biosecurity and primary industries.

In this role you will be:

- Planning, leading and delivering intelligence products drawing on a strong understanding of intelligence methodology.
- Negotiating with stakeholders both internally and external across industry, including decision makers, to determine requirements and priorities for intelligence products.
- Establishing networks and maintaining productive relationships across MPI, wider government and industry.
- Prepared to be involved in Responses including All of Government Responses.
- Developing insights into risks and opportunities for our biosecurity system and/or our primary industries.

**Mōu - About You**:
We are looking for intelligence professionals that are innovative and creative in their analytic tradecraft, comfortable working with ambiguity, enjoy engaging with clients and stakeholders, and appreciate a supportive, positive work environment.

To be successful in this role, you will need:

- A tertiary qualification or experience in a relevant discipline such as intelligence, science, law, economics, international relations, or resource management
- Working knowledge of collecting and interpreting diverse information.
- Effective Interpersonal and relationship management skills.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated ability to plan and prioritise use of time and manage workflows.

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**Mō tō mātou Rōpū - About the Team**

The Intelligence and Information Group collects global reporting, science, and data to produce actionable strategic and operational intelligence for busy decision makers across MPI and the wider national security and hazard risk systems.

Our Intelligence Analysts come from a variety of backgrounds and work collaboratively to fuse their collective understanding of the sciences, international relations, and economics with intelligence frameworks and methodologies, to deliver robust intelligence assessments.

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**Mō te Manatū Ahu Matua - About MPI**

Our role includes seizing export opportunities for our food and fibre sector, improving sector productivity, ensuring the food we produce is safe, increasing sustainable resource use, and protecting New Zealand from biological risk.

**Ngā hua o te Mahi i te Manatū Ahu Matua: - Benefits of working at MPI**
- Career development and internal opportunities across the branch and organisation
- Wellness benefit for employees
- Reduced premiums for Group Healthcare Schemes
- Bi-annual MPI-paid eye test and contribution to the costs of corrective lenses/frames
- We support work life balance and flexible work arrangements whenever possible.

**Ngā Taki Whakahaumaru - Security checks**
- A citizen of, and have resided continuously, in New Zealand or one of the following countries for at least the last fifteen (15) years: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, or the United States.
- Have a background history that is verifiable and can be assessed as appropriate by the NZSIS toward the recommendation of suitability for a security clearance at a higher level.

**Kua rite koe mō tēnei mahi whaitake? - Are you ready to make a difference?**
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We are committed to being a good partner under Te Tiriti o Waitangi which includes working closely with iwi, hapū, whānau and hāpori.

In your cover letter we'd like to know about you, your values; your interest and motivations for this role; the abilities, strengths, personal attributes and diverse perspectives you will bring to the role and this organisation, which may have also been gained outside of the workforce.

**Applications close at midnight on **30 October 2024.**

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